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“You are everything to me.”
“Fuck me hard, Bear Slayer.”
“Where to start, Embers… Where to fucking start…”
“I was trying to save you.”
“Delmira needs a queen.”
Torj had become what he was always meant to be: the shield between Wren and the world that had already taken too much.
She had listened to men talk about her as though she wasn’t there for long enough, and she was done.
“I’m his to protect,” she said. “And he’s mine.”
They were in a strange place, caught somewhere between her sorrow and his regret, that wall of secrets now rubble between them. And yet she couldn’t help wanting to be near him.
She missed him—missed them.
But she couldn’t seem to pull away. She liked his closeness.
“You’re always safe with me,”
“It feels that way,”
“No,” he said. “I miss you.”
“It’s you I miss,” he told her again, cupping her face in his hands. “I miss talking with you. I miss your smile. I miss the weight of you in my arms. I miss… everything.” The words seemed to tumble from his lips, a broken dam of feeling.
“The moments with you, anyway,” he went on. “With you, every second feels important.”
They’d watched the stars together. He’d held her hand. He’d memorized the constellation of freckles across her nose in the moonlight.
“Are you coming, Torj?”
Torj. Not Bear Slayer. Not War...
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The thing between Wren and the Warsword was beautiful, like the rose she had been so desperately trying to propagate… But it was not without its thorns, and it had left them both bleeding more times than she could count.
“We were always stronger together.”
Wren was everything. Everything he’d ever wanted. Everything he’d ever needed.
Soul bonded.
“Have you been waiting up all night for me, Bear Slayer?” she asked.
“I waited years for you, Embers.” Torj brushed a heated kiss to her mouth. “What was a few more hours?”
“You’re going to want to hang on tight, Embers…”
“I think it happened exactly the way it needed to, Embers. I don’t regret a moment of it. Not if we stand here together at the end of it all.”
“You’d do it all again?”
“A hundred times over if it meant yo...
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“Whatever it is, we’ll face it together…”
“For decades, the kingdom of Delmira has been without a reigning sovereign, until now.”
“Prove it, Bear Slayer. Fuck me like I’m yours. Fuck me so I feel you for days.”
Tell me this isn’t goodbye.
I have always loved you.
